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Report: iOS 7.1 due within week, before SXSW

By Jeremy Horwitz ● Tuesday, March 4, 2014

According to a brief post by Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, Apple will release the final version of iOS 7.1 “any day now,” ahead of next week’s iTunes Festival at South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. Alluding to an unnamed source at Apple, Gruber notes that “a little birdie” told him that the iTunes Festival live streaming application requires iOS 7.1, so the long-awaited bug-fixing iOS update would logically need to become available before the Festival begins. An Apple TV channel will also be added to stream iTunes Festival content.

Update: Apple has released version 5.0 of the free iTunes Festival app, before the company’s release of iOS 7.1.